• Weather
    10/11/2018

    Friday is expected to be mostly sunny with daytime highs ranging between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Sixth edition of Signal festival of light kicks off on Thursday
    10/11/2018

    The annual Signal festival of light gets underway in Prague on Thursday night. Over the next four days, the festival will offer site-specific installations, video mapping on historical buildings and other events around the city.

    The common theme of the festival’s sixth edition will be the centenary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia. Around half a million people are expected to attend.

    The festival will be launched on Prague’s Karlín Square with a video mapping show by French visual artist Romain Tardy.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech-based AAA Auto eyes return to Romania, further CE expansion
    10/11/2018

    Czech-based regional used car dealer AAA Auto, which has been mentioned as a possible IPO candidate in Prague, plans to expand in its Polish operations next year and return to the Romanian market in 2020. The company left both markets in 2009 due to the global financial crisis.

    AAA Auto is among the largest dealers of used cars in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of the number of cars sold. It has more than 40 branches in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • State failing to collect fines for unauthorised online gambling
    10/11/2018

    Since the new gambling law went into effect in 2017, the Finance Ministry has imposed fines against online operators totalling 455 million crowns but collected only a fraction of that amount – just 240,000 crowns – the daily E15 reports.

    In most cases, sanctions were imposed for operating a site without authorisation. According to the NMS monitoring centre for drugs and dependences, more than 500,000 people in the CR have a gambling problem.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Czech Philharmonic begins season at Rudolfinum under new chief conductor
    10/10/2018

    The Czech Philharmonic will open its 123rd season on Wednesday with a concert at the Prague Rudolfinum, under new chief conductor and music director of Semjon Byčkov. Under the direction of Lukáš Vasilka, the Prague Philharmonic Choir will also take part.

    Among the highlights of the upcoming season are concerts by Simona Rattla, Franz Welser-Mösta, Giovanni Antonini and Christophe Eschenbach as well as the programmes of the main guest conductors Jakub Hrůša and Tomáš Netopil.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Government okays sharing of records among medical professionals
    10/10/2018

    The government has approved a proposal to allow patients’ medical records to be shared among doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals treating or caring for them. Currently, healthcare professionals are not always aware of what medications their patients have been prescribed.

    Health Minister Adam Vojtěch (an independent, on the Ano ticket) said it was an important step towards an e-health system, meaning the digitisation of healthcare records.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Pirates, Praha Sobě meeting to agree on Prague mayor candidate
    10/10/2018

    The Pirate Party and civic movement Praha Sobě are due to formally discuss on Wednesday who should be their candidate for Lord Mayor of the Czech capital.

    Although the Civic Democrats won the elections, the centre-right party does not have enough mandates alone to push through own of their own – while, together, the Pirates and Praha Sobě do.

    As a party, the Pirates got more votes in the municipal elections and so should get the position, argues Prague chapter head Zdeněk Hřib, who is gunning for the position.

    But on an individual level, Praha sobě leader Jan Čižinský was the voters’ clear favourite, and while he isn’t insisting that he be the nominee, he is likewise keen on it.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • The Cure to play Colours of Ostrava festival
    10/10/2018

    British new wave band The Cure is the first confirmed headliner set to perform at the next Colours of Ostrava music festival.

    The band, formed by singer and guitarist Robert Smith, played their first show in 1978 and have since performed around 1,500 concerts and released 13 studio albums.

    The 18th edition of Colours of Ostrava takes place from July 17 - 20, 2019. Organisers says in total 120 bands from around the world will perform across some 20 stages.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Survey: Only 15 percent of Czech employees do unpaid volunteer work
    10/10/2018

    Only 15 percent of Czechs are involved in unpaid volunteer activities – the lowest percentage among 34 countries surveyed in the latest Workmonitor Global Survey by the staffing advisory company Randstad.

    Alžběta Honsová, marketing manager at Randstad's local branch, said 51 percent of Czechs consider volunteer work to be important and 67 percent of them say they would volunteer if given paid leave from their jobs to do so.

    Forty-one percent of Czechs surveyed said their employer actively supports at least one charity initiative, but only 7 percent were given paid leave to volunteer for a charity activity or organisation.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Weather outlook
    10/10/2018

    The forecast for Thursday is for sunny skies throughout the country, with daytime highs of 20 to 24 degrees Celsius. The outlook is much the same throughout the weekend.
    Author: Brian Kenety

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